In honour of Autism Acceptance Week, we are sharing this guest blog post from Helen Jefferies, blogger at Autistic Civil Servant. “When I was a kid hardly anyone was autistic. […]
Autism Acceptance Week 2023
We’re celebrating Autism Acceptance Week this year from the 27th March to 7th April at Augustine House.
International Day of Happiness 2023
This year, we’re celebrating the International Day of Happiness! On the 20th of March, it’s time to be your best self and bring a little joy back into the world.
The Matrix: Action, Philosophy – Trans Allegory?
The Matrix, a 1999 cyberpunk action film, is one of the greatest action films ever made, and one of the most important of late 90s/early 00s era. Written and directed […]
Queering Game Studies and Playing With Our Selves: a Retrospective on 2021’s LGBT+ History Month Games Events
by Dr. Joe Baxter-Webb, Senior Lecturer in Games Design In 2021, I enlisted the help of colleagues and students to put together two games-related events as part of CCCU’s LGBT+ […]
Is it safe to come out of the closet? LGBTQ+ horror creators
Join us as we celebrate the directors, the writers, the costume designers and many more who work within the horror film industry and are proud members of the LGBTQ+ community. […]
LGBT History Month 2023 Film Challenge – Movies to love this February
‘Behind the Lens’ Winter is dragging (see what we did there? 😏), but you can add some colour to it by joining our ‘Behind the Lens’ Film Challenge during February […]
Queer Joy in Cinema
There’s no shortage of queer tragedy on film. Stories of LGBT+ suffering and sadness are all too familiar. And of course bearing witness to and being moved by pain on […]
The LGBTQ+ Muppeteer bringing joy to the masses
feature image attribution; Richard Hunt, Gribbaziggy, CC-BY-SA, https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Richard_Hunt You have most likely heard of the Jim Henson’s Company or Creature workshop. Your possibly familiar with The Muppet Show, Fraggle Rock, […]